Sun Xiangfu thought that the days of invigilation would be very boring, who would have thought that he would soon usher in the day of fighting wits and courage with the candidates, in order to be able to get high scores, all kinds of cheating methods were thought out by the candidates, especially the candidates of the Jinshi department.

Because, after passing the first two games, they found that the daily questions are a routine, among which the first major question fill-in-the-blank question, the second major question is silently written, basically from the Four Books and Five Classics, but not everyone is like Yu Shinan has the superpower of being well-read and memorized, and can write seven volumes of "The Legend of the Martyr" silently, most people can't memorize the four books and five classics, let alone write silently, so, in this kind of question with standard answers, everyone doesn't want to lose points, so starting the next day, there are more than 100 candidates who have been arrested. was disqualified from reference, and the search became more and more strict, and even the clothes had to be taken off to see the inside.

Then, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of conflicts between the search personnel and the candidates, and after Li Shimin got the report, he directly came to a holy decree, all the candidates who tried to be entrained into the examination room were directly disqualified from the reference of the year, and all the candidates who plagiarized and plagiarized in the examination room were forever disqualified from the reference, and then, the whole world was much quieter.

Playing entrainment plagiarism, it is likely that they will not have a chance to be an official in this life, which will make all the candidates scared at once, they have not thought about what they can do if they can't be an official in this life.

Three days passed quickly, I thought that after the exam, Sun Xiangfu would be able to play with the children at home for a few days, but when it came to the marking process, many marking officers quarreled again, especially the marking officers of Jinshike, for no other reason, each marking officer's understanding of the four books and five classics is different, and the scoring difference is quite large, you accuse me of being wrong, I accuse you of being wrong.

Take a simple 'gentleman cook' as an example, some people think that this means that a gentleman should do less vulgar and contemptuous things, and more elegant things such as reading books and reasoning.

Some people think that the gentleman cooks far away because the gentleman should maintain a benevolent heart and not see killing.

There are even more scholars who believe that the gentleman is far away from cooking, which is to tell us that a scholar cannot be a cook, and not only many candidates interpret the answer in this way, but also many people who agree with this answer and give high scores.

This is embarrassing, and the embarrassment is not only this, almost all the scriptures and essays, there are various problems, which proves that within Confucianism in this period, the knowledge left by the sages, the cognition is not uniform, this situation, so that Kong Yingda is very panicked, directly shattered his desire to change the nature of Confucianism, to cater to the minds of the rulers of the new era, because, your internal thinking has not been unified! How to cater to the emperor's mind.

"Zhengming thinks, what is the explanation of this matter?"

Xiao didn't know when he started, he felt that he couldn't solve things, so he would habitually ask Sun Xiangfu, anyway, from Sun Xiangfu, he could always get a reasonable solution, and Sun Xiangfu would be like a problem expert.

Basically, there is no need to think about it, Sun Xiangfu said, "Since the rules have already been set, follow the rules, and the officials who read the papers have the right to score questions with non-standard answers, remove the lowest score, remove the highest score, and calculate the average score for the remaining scores." ”

"No, it's not fair to give points even if you understand something completely wrong."

Today, Sun Xiangfu saw an old man with the same ears as Yu Chigong, and Kong Yingda suddenly interjected from behind, which startled him.

"At this time, according to the pre-set system, it is fair, right or wrong, but it is not important, if each candidate's understanding of the scriptures is limited by a standard answer, then may I ask Confucius Wine, where is the standard answer?"

Since the formation of Confucianism based on the Four Books and Five Classics, in the process of inheritance, there have been people constantly making new interpretations for him, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty even mixed it with the theory of yin and yang and five elements, and the divine power, monarchical power, paternal power, and husband's power have been run together to form an imperial theological system, which can be said to have changed the original Confucianism beyond recognition.

Your own school, so without a position, future generations will naturally learn what it is, it is what it is, and interpret it in a way that is beneficial to you, after going through the literary fault line of the five nonsense, even if Kong Yingda is a descendant of Confucius, he may not be able to unify these miscellaneous ideas at present.

Listening to Sun Xiangfu's words, Kong Yingda was dumbfounded.

In fact, he was aware of such a problem early on, but there was no way to solve it.

Historically, it was also because of the outbreak of such a problem in the imperial examination of the Zhenguan Dynasty that Li Shimin issued an order for Kong Yingda to recompile and annotate the "Five Classics of Justice", in order to eradicate the internal sects of Confucianism in the early Tang Dynasty.

However, this huge book was initially written in the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, and after some additions and deletions, the final version was officially promulgated in the Gaozong period after Kong Yingda's death, and it is a great tragedy in the history of national education.

Because after he was officially defined as a unified textbook, it became a scholastic dogma, so that Confucianism, from a think tank compatible with all schools, became a shackle that imprisoned thoughts, and seriously affected the development of the entire literary education in later generations.

This is certainly not the original intention of Li Shimin and Kong Yingda, but now even if they get this "Five Classics of Justice" out again, it will be difficult to imprison the thoughts of this nation.

Because Sun Xiangfu appeared as a traverser, Confucianism will no longer become the mainstream of education, and can only be reduced to a side dish, as can be seen from the proportion of the number of people referred to in this subject, the other subjects, the reference of students, up to more than 5,000 people, Jinshi department, only about 3,000 people, barely more than one-third of the number.

It is estimated that there will not be even one-third of the number of reference students for the next session, because the people will refer to the difficulty of the subjects they take to decide what books they should read and what skills they should learn.

Now, the imperial court in engineering, business, Ming Calculation, Ming Law, and even medicine, the shortage is huge, and the range of scholars will be the largest, then, everyone in the next session, the number of people who apply for these subjects will be the most, because the people who participate in the scientific examination, the purpose is to be officials, what to learn, it is not important to them, there is a good way to go to the promotion road not to take, why take a more difficult road?

"The old man wants to play Your Majesty, compile the commentary on the Four Books and Five Classics, and standardize the doctrine of Confucian students, these wrong answers, please stop scoring them for the time being." After thinking about it for a long time, Kong Yingda thought of a way that might work.

Sun Xiangfu shook his head with a smile and said, "Kong Sacrifice Wine, how long will it take for your justice to be compiled?" Do you want all the students to wait for you for ten or eight years? ”

"This"

Kong Yingda's stubborn momentum, with Sun Xiangfu's words, was vented, that thing can't be made up in a day or two, even with the support of the emperor, a large group of Confucians must be summoned, and through countless dialectics, it can be defined word by word, Sun Xiangfu said ten years and eight years, that is still fast, but the candidates have so many years to wait for a result.

"Okay, let's do what Zhengming said first! Later, the old man and Kong Saijiu played to His Majesty together, and I believe that His Majesty will definitely be able to make a wise decision, but this is an even matter, I am afraid that "

"It's very simple, let's first correct the examination papers of the Ming Arithmetic subject against the standard answers, and then, let them participate in the calculation of the score as a new imperial examiner, there are more people, and it will be easier to calculate."

"It's a good idea, just act according to the righteous law! There are not many candidates in the Ming Arithmetic subject, there are standard answers, we can read the exam papers in one day, and tomorrow we will post the list, let the selected children, and go to the Guozijian to calculate the average score of various non-standard answer exam papers the day after tomorrow. ”

For mathematical talents, the imperial court is in short supply, especially after the tax reform, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Finance, and cities like Shanyang and Weinan, which are gradually beginning to industrialize, when Sun Xiangfu learned that the number of people who applied for the Ming Arithmetic Department was less than 500 people, he even wanted to take all of them, as long as he could write and calculate, in fact, he was already able to serve in many departments.

Of course, in order to prevent everyone from piling up in the next imperial examination, some professional knowledge still has to be examined, and it can't really be all selected, for example, there are some uneducated people who fish in troubled waters to try their luck, and they must be eliminated.

Before dusk, the test scores of hundreds of students in Ming Arithmetic were all counted, and according to the score ranking, Sun Xiangfu suggested that the first place Li Yao be set as the champion, the second place Wen Ji was set as the list eye, and the third place Qian Tong was set as Tanhua.

And give the three people brocade red robes, tall horses, let them enjoy the horse into the imperial city, eat a high-level banquet given by the emperor, and the prime minister in person.

It means to give them the supreme glory to stimulate their learning and make them more motivated when they study and go to school.

This suggestion was immediately agreed by Li Shimin, and he even asked to come to the banquet site in person to have face-to-face exchanges with top talents in all aspects of Datang, Sun Xiangfu felt that it was okay, anyway, you have time, and you are a master of winning people's hearts in the wine field, you will definitely have a better effect.

So, when the banquet named "Qionglin Banquet" was set, the sound of gongs in Chang'an City that night resounded through the streets of Fangshi, Li Yao, Wen Ji, and Qian Tong were known all night in Chang'an City, which made all the candidates not expect.

And when many students came to Wubenfang the next day to crowd to see the list, Xiao specially invited the three of them up, and gave them brocade red robes, tall horses, winged scribe hats, and a marriage when they got married, the groom official would tie the big red flower on his chest, and announced in public that after the three of them were announced, they would be able to enter the imperial city with the champions of the rest of the subjects, the list eye, and the flowers, and enjoy the royal wine banquet. Even the emperor may have come to the banquet to meet them in person, but the three of them almost fainted happily.

And when he saw the flames of envy and jealousy in the eyes of the onlookers, especially the students, Xiao was very comfortable, because he knew that if the next session was to take the exam again, not only the number of candidates, but also the level of the candidates would be greatly improved.